Provides the latest RSS feeds for Ireland News. For more headlines on Breaking, National, Business, Finance, Sports and World News, visit our home page Irish Sun.com http://www.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/10/id/aba4168066a10b8d/ en-us Sat, 04 Jul 2009 00:05:04 -0400 Sat, 04 Jul 2009 00:05:04 -0400 30 Washington, July 3 : Love beer and have a dream to travel to the space? Well, here's your chance to fulfil your wish-just enter a new contest by the company behind the dark Irish beer Guinness.he beer bosses have reserved a seat aboard a suborbital Virgin Galactic space liner as one of three experience prizes in an online contest honouring the 250th birthday of the beer's brewery this year. http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/aba4168066a10b8d/id/514687/cs/1/ Fri, 03 Jul 2009 05:40:04 -0400 Irish Sun.com http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/aba4168066a10b8d/id/514687/cs/1/ Jul 4 2009 North Korea has reportedly fired two mid-range missiles off it eastern coast. South Korea's Yonhap news agency's report says the launches on Saturday appeared to be of Scud missiles. T... http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/aba4168066a10b8d/id/25857952/ Fri, 03 Jul 2009 23:33:01 -0400 Loughborough Echo http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/aba4168066a10b8d/id/25857952/ '); } writeAuthHeader(179, true, 'http://www.loughboroughecho.net/registration/index.cfm', null, false, '' ); //]]> http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/aba4168066a10b8d/id/25857953/ Fri, 03 Jul 2009 23:33:01 -0400 Loughborough Echo http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/aba4168066a10b8d/id/25857953/ Jul 4 2009 Margaret Thatcher's famous budget rebate "victory" in Europe 25 years ago was actually a defeat which left her broken and in tears, it has been claimed. French economist Jacques Attali ... http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/aba4168066a10b8d/id/25857954/ Fri, 03 Jul 2009 23:33:00 -0400 Loughborough Echo http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/aba4168066a10b8d/id/25857954/ Jul 4 2009 Organisers of Michael Jackson's public memorial have announced that British fans will be able to apply for tickets. The clamour for tickets for the event in Los Angeles began as soon as... http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/aba4168066a10b8d/id/25857955/ Fri, 03 Jul 2009 23:33:00 -0400 Loughborough Echo http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/aba4168066a10b8d/id/25857955/ MICHAEL O'REGAN THE ECONOMIC focus must now be on reducing expenditure rather than on increasing total taxation, Minister for Finance Brian Lenihan said. He said he would receive the conclusions of th... http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/aba4168066a10b8d/id/25856107/ Fri, 03 Jul 2009 20:49:15 -0400 Irish Times http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/aba4168066a10b8d/id/25856107/ EITHNE DONNELLAN, ACCOUNTING SYSTEMS inherited by the HSE are no longer adequate, according to a new report. The report, published yesterday by the Department of Health, said the systems were not desi... http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/aba4168066a10b8d/id/25856124/ Fri, 03 Jul 2009 20:49:00 -0400 Irish Times http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/aba4168066a10b8d/id/25856124/ MARTIN WALL, Industry Correspondent A COMPANY operating port facilitates at Dublin Port yesterday secured an interim ex-parte injunction to prevent picketers from obstructing vehicles entering or leav... http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/aba4168066a10b8d/id/25856123/ Fri, 03 Jul 2009 20:48:59 -0400 Irish Times http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/aba4168066a10b8d/id/25856123/ CAIRO (AP) - The international peacekeeping mission in Darfur says gunmen have abducted two female aid workers in the western Sudanese region. Noureddine Mezni, a spokesman for the United Nations-Afr... http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/aba4168066a10b8d/id/25855861/ Fri, 03 Jul 2009 20:49:25 -0400 KTNV http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/aba4168066a10b8d/id/25855861/ MICHAEL PARSONS GARDAÍ­ IN Carlow have seized a huge consignment of illegal pornographic films in a series of raids on an adult shop in the town. Gardaí secured a court order to take in... http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/aba4168066a10b8d/id/25856117/ Fri, 03 Jul 2009 20:49:09 -0400 Irish Times http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/aba4168066a10b8d/id/25856117/ In Short A FORMER client of struck-off solicitor Thomas Byrne is liable for a €1.33 million bank loan although he was a victim of fraud and deception by the lawyer, the High Court ruled yesterda... http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/aba4168066a10b8d/id/25856101/ Fri, 03 Jul 2009 20:49:19 -0400 Irish Times http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/aba4168066a10b8d/id/25856101/ MARTIN WALL, Industry Correspondent TALKS AIMED at averting a threatened strike at Bus Éireann over the introduction of controversial cost-saving proposals have been adjourned and will continue l... http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/aba4168066a10b8d/id/25856126/ Fri, 03 Jul 2009 20:49:01 -0400 Irish Times http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/aba4168066a10b8d/id/25856126/ Jul 4 2009 BT employees have been offered the chance of long-term holidays if they agree to huge pay cuts, the company said tonight. One option available to staff is taking a year off with a 75% d... http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/aba4168066a10b8d/id/25856096/ Fri, 03 Jul 2009 20:49:48 -0400 Loughborough Echo http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/aba4168066a10b8d/id/25856096/ DAN KEENAN THE ANNUAL Drumcree parade has again been prohibited from the nationalist Garvaghy Road area of Portadown, Co Armagh tomorrow. The decision maintains the policy of refusing permission for t... http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/aba4168066a10b8d/id/25856099/ Fri, 03 Jul 2009 20:49:22 -0400 Irish Times http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/aba4168066a10b8d/id/25856099/ JOHN FALLON A CO GALWAY mother believes that lightning which struck her Connemara home would have killed her daughter had she been in her bedroom when the incident happened. Sabina Berry has called on... http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/aba4168066a10b8d/id/25856115/ Fri, 03 Jul 2009 20:49:07 -0400 Irish Times http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/aba4168066a10b8d/id/25856115/ PADDY CLANCY FOUR MEN who were accused of driving their motor bikes in convoy at 260 km/h escaped a dangerous driving conviction yesterday. The charges against them were dismissed after the prosecutio... http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/aba4168066a10b8d/id/25856103/ Fri, 03 Jul 2009 20:49:19 -0400 Irish Times http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/aba4168066a10b8d/id/25856103/ EITHNE DONNELLAN, Health Correspondent TWELVE NEW cases of swine flu were confirmed in the State yesterday, as the World Health Organisation (WHO) warned the spread of the virus was now “unstopp... http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/aba4168066a10b8d/id/25856127/ Fri, 03 Jul 2009 20:48:59 -0400 Irish Times http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/aba4168066a10b8d/id/25856127/ MICHAEL McHALE PERFORMANCES BY a rock star, a celebration of 300-year-old satirical literature and ballroom dancing are some of the many events and festivals taking place nationwide this weekend. Rod ... http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/aba4168066a10b8d/id/25856129/ Fri, 03 Jul 2009 20:48:57 -0400 Irish Times http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/aba4168066a10b8d/id/25856129/ CARL O'BRIEN, Social Affairs Correspondent THE VAST majority of the State’s 37,000 childminders are not declaring their income to the Revenue Commissioners, new figures indicate. Just 229, or a ... http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/aba4168066a10b8d/id/25856128/ Fri, 03 Jul 2009 20:48:58 -0400 Irish Times http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/aba4168066a10b8d/id/25856128/ STEPHEN COLLINS, Political Editor TAOISEACH BRIAN Cowen has defended his record as minister for finance and insisted that he has no more cause for regret than the International Monetary Fund (IMF) or ... http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/aba4168066a10b8d/id/25856120/ Fri, 03 Jul 2009 20:49:02 -0400 Irish Times http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/aba4168066a10b8d/id/25856120/ CAROL COULTER, Legal Affairs Editor THE NEW gangland legislation, the Criminal Justice (Amendment) Bill, is vulnerable to constitutional challenge, according to a leading criminal lawyer. Speaking as ... http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/aba4168066a10b8d/id/25856122/ Fri, 03 Jul 2009 20:49:03 -0400 Irish Times http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/aba4168066a10b8d/id/25856122/ In Short A KILDARE bouncer with one day’s training threw a customer out of a nightclub and left him lying in a pool of blood, Dublin Circuit Criminal Court has heard. Ultan Mac Raghnaill (26), B... http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/aba4168066a10b8d/id/25856105/ Fri, 03 Jul 2009 20:49:18 -0400 Irish Times http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/aba4168066a10b8d/id/25856105/ Local boy done good: Joe Higgins, with his 91-year-old mother Ellen Ned’s hot tip for the nags; thumbs at the ready in the chamber; going toe to toe with Lee; from Ballineetig to Brussels; dappe... http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/aba4168066a10b8d/id/25856106/ Fri, 03 Jul 2009 20:49:17 -0400 Irish Times http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/aba4168066a10b8d/id/25856106/ Jul 3 2009 A fire in a block of flats left has six people dead, including three children. The blaze, in Havil Street, Camberwell, south London, began on the four floor of the 12-storey block on Fr... http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/aba4168066a10b8d/id/25856097/ Fri, 03 Jul 2009 20:49:46 -0400 Loughborough Echo http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/aba4168066a10b8d/id/25856097/ CAROL COULTER THE LAW Society has called on the Government to defer the enactment of the Criminal Justice (Amendment) Bill to allow for a proper debate, and said it wishes to make detailed submissions... http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/aba4168066a10b8d/id/25856121/ Fri, 03 Jul 2009 20:49:04 -0400 Irish Times http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/aba4168066a10b8d/id/25856121/ Inquiry begins as house bought for Travellers destroyed in fire A MAN who brutally robbed and killed 83-year-old Christy Hanley in Co Westmeath last year will be sentenced next week. Mr Hanley was tie... http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/aba4168066a10b8d/id/25856131/ Fri, 03 Jul 2009 20:48:56 -0400 Irish Times http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/aba4168066a10b8d/id/25856131/ MARIE O'HALLORAN GOVERNMENT backbencher Ciarán Cuffe has sharply criticised criminal justice legislation which allows for the use of the non-jury, three-judge Special Criminal Court to deal with ... http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/aba4168066a10b8d/id/25856113/ Fri, 03 Jul 2009 20:49:09 -0400 Irish Times http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/aba4168066a10b8d/id/25856113/ MICHAEL O'REGAN TAOISEACH BRIAN Cowen defended his record as minister for finance during a series of statements on the recent OECD and IMF reports. His regret, he said, was that he did not manage to p... http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/aba4168066a10b8d/id/25856110/ Fri, 03 Jul 2009 20:49:13 -0400 Irish Times http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/aba4168066a10b8d/id/25856110/ MICHAEL O'REGAN DÁIL SKETCH: GREEN PARTY TD Ciaran Cuffe threw a spanner in the Government’s works yesterday, when he expressed reservations about the controversial Criminal Justice Bill. H... http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/aba4168066a10b8d/id/25856114/ Fri, 03 Jul 2009 20:49:12 -0400 Irish Times http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/aba4168066a10b8d/id/25856114/ PAUL CULLEN THE FINANCIAL Regulator has told banks and insurance companies they should disclose overcharging incidents rather than wait for the media to find out about them. Proactively bringing issue... http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/aba4168066a10b8d/id/25856130/ Fri, 03 Jul 2009 20:48:56 -0400 Irish Times http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/aba4168066a10b8d/id/25856130/ MARY MINIHAN THE LATE Christy Hanley’s niece, Breeda Harvey, told the court that Noel Cawley was a “monster” who showed no remorse for killing an “extraordinary, kind, respectf... http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/aba4168066a10b8d/id/25856104/ Fri, 03 Jul 2009 20:49:17 -0400 Irish Times http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/aba4168066a10b8d/id/25856104/ DAN KEENAN, Northern News Editor FIVE APPLICANTS are to be interviewed by the policing board for the position of PSNI chief constable next month. The board said seven applications were received to rep... http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/aba4168066a10b8d/id/25856100/ Fri, 03 Jul 2009 20:49:21 -0400 Irish Times http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/aba4168066a10b8d/id/25856100/ JIMMY WALSH SEANAD REPORT: THE PROPERTY market would be distorted as a result of a scandalous lending policy that had been adopted by at least one financial institution, Brendan Ryan (Labour) contende... http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/aba4168066a10b8d/id/25856108/ Fri, 03 Jul 2009 20:49:15 -0400 Irish Times http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/aba4168066a10b8d/id/25856108/ MARIE O'HALLORAN OPPOSITION TDS have sharply criticised as an “abuse of power” the “frenzied manner” in which controversial new criminal justice legislation is being fast-track... http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/aba4168066a10b8d/id/25856112/ Fri, 03 Jul 2009 20:49:11 -0400 Irish Times http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/aba4168066a10b8d/id/25856112/ MICHAEL O'REGAN FINE GAEL leader Enda Kenny claimed the IMF report was a “damning indictment’’ of Brian Cowen’s record as minister for finance. “The report makes it clear... http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/aba4168066a10b8d/id/25856109/ Fri, 03 Jul 2009 20:49:14 -0400 Irish Times http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/aba4168066a10b8d/id/25856109/ KATHRYN HAYES THE GOVERNMENT has sought in the region of €20 million in assistance from the European Globalisation Fund, it has emerged. Speaking during a visit to Limerick yesterday EU commissi... http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/aba4168066a10b8d/id/25856116/ Fri, 03 Jul 2009 20:49:08 -0400 Irish Times http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/aba4168066a10b8d/id/25856116/ MARK BARRY A CORK woman received a suspended three-year prison sentence yesterday for stabbing her husband in the back less than one year after the couple married. Unemployed hairdresser Laura Egan (2... http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/aba4168066a10b8d/id/25856098/ Fri, 03 Jul 2009 20:49:20 -0400 Irish Times http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/aba4168066a10b8d/id/25856098/ Garda scene-of-crime investigators and detectives at the house at Ballina, Co Tipperary, that was destroyed after fire broke out at the property at around 1.30am yesterday. Photograph: Brian Gavin/Pre... http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/aba4168066a10b8d/id/25856132/ Fri, 03 Jul 2009 20:48:55 -0400 Irish Times http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/aba4168066a10b8d/id/25856132/ PATSY McGARRY, Religious Affairs Correspondent THE LABOUR Party has appealed to the Government not to oppose its private members Bill addressing the concerns of victims of abuse in religious-run insti... http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/aba4168066a10b8d/id/25856119/ Fri, 03 Jul 2009 20:49:04 -0400 Irish Times http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/aba4168066a10b8d/id/25856119/ MARY CAROLAN THE REVENUE has won unprecedented summary judgment orders from the Commercial Court requiring two SUV dealers to pay more than €10 million arising from unpaid VAT and interest. The ... http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/aba4168066a10b8d/id/25856102/ Fri, 03 Jul 2009 20:49:19 -0400 Irish Times http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/aba4168066a10b8d/id/25856102/ The new US ambassador to Ireland, Dan Rooney, with James and John Finn from Claremorris, Co Mayo, during the American Chamber of Commerce Ireland annual Independence Day lunch in the Four Seasons Hote... http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/aba4168066a10b8d/id/25856125/ Fri, 03 Jul 2009 20:49:02 -0400 Irish Times http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/aba4168066a10b8d/id/25856125/ MARIE O'HALLORAN TWO LIMERICK Government Ministers have staunchly defended the legislation to allow for non-jury trials as essential to dealing with gangland crime in their city. Minister for Defence ... http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/aba4168066a10b8d/id/25856111/ Fri, 03 Jul 2009 20:49:10 -0400 Irish Times http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/aba4168066a10b8d/id/25856111/ PAUL CULLEN, Consumer Affairs Correspondent THE IRISH Auctioneers and Valuers Institute (IAVI) is paying a total of over €150,000 to housebuyers who lost their deposits with the collapse of a Co... http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/aba4168066a10b8d/id/25856133/ Fri, 03 Jul 2009 20:48:54 -0400 Irish Times http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/aba4168066a10b8d/id/25856133/ TOM SHIEL RIPPED UP roads, ruined bridges and mountains scarred by landslides are a stark reminder of the severe flooding which hit west Mayo on Thursday. As the clean-up gathered pace yesterday, Pete... http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/aba4168066a10b8d/id/25856118/ Fri, 03 Jul 2009 20:49:06 -0400 Irish Times http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/aba4168066a10b8d/id/25856118/ It is the third kidnapping of foreign aid staff in the territory in four months. A gang of six men took the women, both working for the Irish aid group GOAL, from their compound in the north Darfur t... http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/aba4168066a10b8d/id/25855462/ Fri, 03 Jul 2009 20:29:48 -0400 Sky News http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/aba4168066a10b8d/id/25855462/ Cork City injected hope back into their title challenge by defeating Galway United at Terryland Park with a clinical performance. A decent passing game was decided by Cork's ability to strike for goa... http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/aba4168066a10b8d/id/25853946/ Fri, 03 Jul 2009 18:28:03 -0400 RTE http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/aba4168066a10b8d/id/25853946/ Jul 3 2009 Two children have died after a fire ripped through a tower block in south London, emergency services have said. More than 100 firefighters brought the blaze at the 12-storey block of fl... http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/aba4168066a10b8d/id/25853947/ Fri, 03 Jul 2009 18:23:06 -0400 Loughborough Echo http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/aba4168066a10b8d/id/25853947/ Dublin: Having grumbled about billions spent on banks, the Irish public have pulled together to rescue another treasure - described as one of Ireland's few original contributions to world cuisine: the... http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/aba4168066a10b8d/id/25853121/ Fri, 03 Jul 2009 17:48:48 -0400 Gulf News http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/aba4168066a10b8d/id/25853121/ Ireland's cricketers got off to the best possible start in their 4 day Intercontinental Cup match against Kenya at Eglington cricket club, writes John Kenny. In the first match in defence of their ti... http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/aba4168066a10b8d/id/25851376/ Fri, 03 Jul 2009 16:03:37 -0400 RTE http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/aba4168066a10b8d/id/25851376/ A 31-year-old man is in a critical condition in hospital in Dublin after he was stabbed in the neck. The man was attacked on Parnell Street in Dublin city centre at around 4pm this afternoon. He was... http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/aba4168066a10b8d/id/25851688/ Fri, 03 Jul 2009 16:03:27 -0400 RTE News http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/aba4168066a10b8d/id/25851688/ Ireland has finished joint fourth in the Young Rider European Team Championships at Hoofddorp in the Netherlands on Friday. After Thursday's first round of the Nations' Cup, when Ireland lay in fifth... http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/aba4168066a10b8d/id/25851691/ Fri, 03 Jul 2009 16:03:26 -0400 RTE http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/aba4168066a10b8d/id/25851691/ The two Irish people arrested by the Israeli Navy last Tuesday are still being held in prison and will not be released until Sunday at the earliest. Peace Laureate, Mairead Corrigan Maguire and anoth... http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/aba4168066a10b8d/id/25851690/ Fri, 03 Jul 2009 16:03:20 -0400 RTE News http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/aba4168066a10b8d/id/25851690/ An 18-year-old man has been sentenced to life in prison for the murder of greengrocer Harry Holland in west Belfast. At Belfast Crown Court, Mr Justice Weir told 18-year-old Stephen McKee from Ballym... http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/aba4168066a10b8d/id/25851687/ Fri, 03 Jul 2009 16:03:22 -0400 RTE News http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/aba4168066a10b8d/id/25851687/ The sentencing of Noel Cawley for killing 83-year-old horse trader Christy Hanley in Westmeath last year has been adjourned until next Friday. The adjournment is to allow the judge to consider all th... http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/aba4168066a10b8d/id/25851689/ Fri, 03 Jul 2009 16:03:19 -0400 RTE News http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/aba4168066a10b8d/id/25851689/ Jul 3 2009 British hopes for a home-grown Wimbledon champion have been crushed after Andy Murray crashed out of the tournament. But the British number one vowed to come back stronger next year and... http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/aba4168066a10b8d/id/25851692/ Fri, 03 Jul 2009 15:59:00 -0400 Loughborough Echo http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/aba4168066a10b8d/id/25851692/ Jul 3 2009 Around 25 people are feared trapped in a block of flats after a fire swept through the building. More than 100 firefighters were tackling the blaze at the 12-storey tower block in Cambe... http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/aba4168066a10b8d/id/25851693/ Fri, 03 Jul 2009 15:58:48 -0400 Loughborough Echo http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/aba4168066a10b8d/id/25851693/ Jul 3 2009 Andy Murray has been beaten by Andy Roddick in the men's singles semi-final at Wimbledon. The 22-year-old British number one, from Dunblane, Scotland, was beaten by the sixth seed in fo... http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/aba4168066a10b8d/id/25851695/ Fri, 03 Jul 2009 15:58:37 -0400 Loughborough Echo http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/aba4168066a10b8d/id/25851695/ The Labour Relations Commission has convened talks for tomorrow in an attempt to resolve a dispute over pay in the electrical contracting sector.The National Implementation Body, intervened over the t... http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/aba4168066a10b8d/id/25851686/ Fri, 03 Jul 2009 15:51:30 -0400 Breaking News.ie http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/aba4168066a10b8d/id/25851686/ Jul 3 2009 A jealous martial arts expert who strangled his partner after learning she planned to leave him for another man has been found guilty of murder. Alan Jermey was "obsessive" about Merced... http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/aba4168066a10b8d/id/25849507/ Fri, 03 Jul 2009 14:03:31 -0400 Loughborough Echo http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/aba4168066a10b8d/id/25849507/ Jul 3 2009 A violent footballer has been given two life sentences after he admitted killing his ex-girlfriend seven years after being cleared of the crime. Mario Celaire, 31, was told he must serv... http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/aba4168066a10b8d/id/25849506/ Fri, 03 Jul 2009 14:03:30 -0400 Loughborough Echo http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/aba4168066a10b8d/id/25849506/ Jul 3 2009 A man whose girlfriend burnt to death in a car after he crashed into a tree while drunk has been jailed for six years. Waqas Arshad, 24, of Bedfordshire, escaped the Citroen C4 after he... http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/aba4168066a10b8d/id/25849508/ Fri, 03 Jul 2009 14:03:29 -0400 Loughborough Echo http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/aba4168066a10b8d/id/25849508/ Firearms and a quantity of ammunition were seized in Co. Louth today.The seizure was made following a search at a house at Ardee.Investigations are continuing. http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/aba4168066a10b8d/id/25849498/ Fri, 03 Jul 2009 13:56:00 -0400 Breaking News.ie http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/aba4168066a10b8d/id/25849498/ The Taoiseach says he was right not to scrap stamp duty on property sales when the economy was booming.He was speaking in the Dáil at the opening of statements on recent IMF and OECD reports, which b... http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/aba4168066a10b8d/id/25849503/ Fri, 03 Jul 2009 13:55:57 -0400 Breaking News.ie http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/aba4168066a10b8d/id/25849503/ A man is fighting for his life tonight after being stabbed in Dublin city centre.The 31-year-old is in a critical condition in hospital after the knife attack on Parnell Street.It is understood the ma... http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/aba4168066a10b8d/id/25849497/ Fri, 03 Jul 2009 13:55:59 -0400 Breaking News.ie http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/aba4168066a10b8d/id/25849497/ A search and rescue operation has been stood down, after two 12-year-old boys, feared missing in a river in Co Limerick, were found safe and well.The friends are understood to have taken a small boat ... http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/aba4168066a10b8d/id/25849501/ Fri, 03 Jul 2009 13:55:58 -0400 Breaking News.ie http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/aba4168066a10b8d/id/25849501/ A new report says there are still some areas of job opportunity out there, despite the economic crisis.The National Skills Bulletin shows that the sectors suffering the biggest losses this year were c... http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/aba4168066a10b8d/id/25849500/ Fri, 03 Jul 2009 13:55:57 -0400 Breaking News.ie http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/aba4168066a10b8d/id/25849500/ The trial of a 16-year-old boy charged at the Children’s Court over a shooting incident at a Traveller halting site, in Dublin last September has been adjourned.The teen, who is on bail, admits bein... http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/aba4168066a10b8d/id/25849502/ Fri, 03 Jul 2009 13:55:56 -0400 Breaking News.ie http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/aba4168066a10b8d/id/25849502/ A Co Clare teacher accused of sexually assaulting three boys aged between 10 and 12 years has been acquitted on charges relating to one of the boys.The jury will continue their deliberations on Monday... http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/aba4168066a10b8d/id/25849505/ Fri, 03 Jul 2009 13:55:55 -0400 Breaking News.ie http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/aba4168066a10b8d/id/25849505/ Irish pension managed funds have succeeded in another consecutive month of positive returns, according to both Hewitt Associates and Rubicon. Hewitt’s http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/aba4168066a10b8d/id/25849509/ Fri, 03 Jul 2009 13:06:43 -0400 European Pensions http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/aba4168066a10b8d/id/25849509/ Jul 3 2009 An investigation is under way following the discovery of a man's body in the undercarriage of a plane after it arrived from Africa, police have said. The dead man was found by engineers... http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/aba4168066a10b8d/id/25847086/ Fri, 03 Jul 2009 11:31:15 -0400 Loughborough Echo http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/aba4168066a10b8d/id/25847086/ A second-hand car dealer was fined £1,500 (€2,100) today for selling ’clocked’ vehicles.Richard ’Dicky’ Barton, of Dundooan Park, Coleraine was also ordered to pay £500 (€700) witness co... http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/aba4168066a10b8d/id/25847075/ Fri, 03 Jul 2009 11:23:27 -0400 Breaking News.ie http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/aba4168066a10b8d/id/25847075/ The North’s new Lord Chief Justice put down a marker for the province’s politicians today that he would brook no interference with the independence of the judiciary when responsibility for policin... http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/aba4168066a10b8d/id/25847076/ Fri, 03 Jul 2009 11:23:25 -0400 Breaking News.ie http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/aba4168066a10b8d/id/25847076/ Jul 3 2009 Andy Murray received a boost ahead of his Wimbledon semi-final clash - a good luck message from David Beckham. The former England captain emailed Murray to tell him how impressed he was... http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/aba4168066a10b8d/id/25847085/ Fri, 03 Jul 2009 11:31:15 -0400 Loughborough Echo http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/aba4168066a10b8d/id/25847085/ Nearly 2,000 people have been arrested for driving while under the influence of drink or drugs in the North during the first six months of the year.The total – 1,946 – was revealed today as the Po... http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/aba4168066a10b8d/id/25847078/ Fri, 03 Jul 2009 11:23:26 -0400 Breaking News.ie http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/aba4168066a10b8d/id/25847078/ Jul 3 2009 Sporting legend Muhammad Ali is to make what could be his last visit to the UK. The 69-year-old boxer will appear at three dinners held in his honour at British sports stadiums next mon... http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/aba4168066a10b8d/id/25847088/ Fri, 03 Jul 2009 11:31:14 -0400 Loughborough Echo http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/aba4168066a10b8d/id/25847088/ A mother whose teenage son underwent life-saving surgery in order to remove two cocaine pellets from his bowels after they both swallowed the drugs before flying to Ireland has been given a five year ... http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/aba4168066a10b8d/id/25847079/ Fri, 03 Jul 2009 11:23:24 -0400 Breaking News.ie http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/aba4168066a10b8d/id/25847079/ Jul 3 2009 Prince Charles has paid tribute to Lieutenant Colonel Rupert Thorneloe, the most senior British officer killed in Afghanistan. The prince, who is colonel-in-chief of Lt Col Thorneloe's ... http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/aba4168066a10b8d/id/25847090/ Fri, 03 Jul 2009 11:31:12 -0400 Loughborough Echo http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/aba4168066a10b8d/id/25847090/ There has been an increase in the number of women applying for payments towards a State pension.It follows the launch of an information leaflet last year, to make non-working women aware of their enti... http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/aba4168066a10b8d/id/25847077/ Fri, 03 Jul 2009 11:23:25 -0400 Breaking News.ie http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/aba4168066a10b8d/id/25847077/ Veteran broadcaster Rodney Rice is to retire tomorrow after presenting his final 'Saturday View', one of the country’s longest running radio shows.Taoiseach Brian Cowen will be his final guest discu... http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/aba4168066a10b8d/id/25847080/ Fri, 03 Jul 2009 11:23:24 -0400 Breaking News.ie http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/aba4168066a10b8d/id/25847080/ Jul 3 2009 The body of a pensioner may have lain undiscovered for five years in an Edinburgh city centre flat. Tests are being carried out to confirm the identity of the body of the woman, named l... http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/aba4168066a10b8d/id/25847089/ Fri, 03 Jul 2009 11:31:13 -0400 Loughborough Echo http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/aba4168066a10b8d/id/25847089/ A Welsh man who got a three West Cork children to strip and get into sexual poses in order to generate child pornography was jailed for six years today.Christopher Thomas, also known as Christopher Ch... http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/aba4168066a10b8d/id/25847084/ Fri, 03 Jul 2009 11:23:22 -0400 Breaking News.ie http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/aba4168066a10b8d/id/25847084/ The main Londonderry to Belfast road has been closed at Drumahoe because of a suspected gas leak at a filling station.The emergency services are at the scene and are understood to be concerned that ga... http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/aba4168066a10b8d/id/25847092/ Fri, 03 Jul 2009 11:10:35 -0400 BBC http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/aba4168066a10b8d/id/25847092/ A Lithuanian gang tried to stab a Portuguese migrant worker in the eye before stabbing him in the back with a carving fork, a court has been told.The attack allegedly occurred in Cookstown on 25 May. ... http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/aba4168066a10b8d/id/25847091/ Fri, 03 Jul 2009 11:10:34 -0400 BBC http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/aba4168066a10b8d/id/25847091/ An 18-year-old man who admitted the murder of west Belfast greengrocer Harry Holland has been told he must serve at least 12 years in prison.Stephen McKee, from Ballymurphy Road, was told there would ... http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/aba4168066a10b8d/id/25847093/ Fri, 03 Jul 2009 11:10:33 -0400 BBC http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/aba4168066a10b8d/id/25847093/ Two men, one carrying a machete, have robbed a bank in Co Tipperary. The AIB branch in the village of Clogheen was robbed around 10.30am this morning. Two men in overalls entered the bank, threatene... http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/aba4168066a10b8d/id/25844614/ Fri, 03 Jul 2009 09:04:34 -0400 RTE News http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/aba4168066a10b8d/id/25844614/ Northern Ireland's Public Prosecution Service has said it will not pursue a case against a US chef, in relation to a break-in at Special Branch offices in Castlereagh over seven years ago. On St Patr... http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/aba4168066a10b8d/id/25844613/ Fri, 03 Jul 2009 09:04:34 -0400 RTE News http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/aba4168066a10b8d/id/25844613/ Jul 3 2009 Some of the British Embassy's Iranian staff held in Tehran will be put on trial, ruling clerics have said. Ayatollah Ahmad Jannati made the announcement in a prayer sermon. Downing Str... http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/aba4168066a10b8d/id/25844618/ Fri, 03 Jul 2009 08:59:47 -0400 Loughborough Echo http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/aba4168066a10b8d/id/25844618/ Jul 3 2009 The bodies of two swimmers who went missing last week have both been found and identified. Dave Ellams, a chef, and Lee Tompkins, a receptionist, went missing on June 23 after they had ... http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/aba4168066a10b8d/id/25844620/ Fri, 03 Jul 2009 08:59:46 -0400 Loughborough Echo http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/aba4168066a10b8d/id/25844620/ Jul 3 2009 A Government decision to "exile" a terrorism suspect from London on the basis of secret evidence must be revoked, the High Court has ruled. A judge said the decision was flawed because ... http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/aba4168066a10b8d/id/25844617/ Fri, 03 Jul 2009 08:59:48 -0400 Loughborough Echo http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/aba4168066a10b8d/id/25844617/ Jul 3 2009 The Government's Chief Medical Officer has warned the public to avoid panic-buying "counterfeit" anti-swine flu drugs online after it was revealed the number of new cases could reach 100... http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/aba4168066a10b8d/id/25844622/ Fri, 03 Jul 2009 08:59:45 -0400 Loughborough Echo http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/aba4168066a10b8d/id/25844622/ Jul 3 2009 The council criticised over the Baby Peter tragedy is still failing to protect all vulnerable children adequately, a report has said. Haringey Council in north London has made only "lim... http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/aba4168066a10b8d/id/25844619/ Fri, 03 Jul 2009 08:59:47 -0400 Loughborough Echo http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/aba4168066a10b8d/id/25844619/ The A&E unit at the Mater Hospital in Dublin is expected to remain closed to the public until Monday as a result of flood damage that occurred earlier this week.The unit is only accepting ambulance ca... http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/aba4168066a10b8d/id/25844611/ Fri, 03 Jul 2009 08:52:01 -0400 Breaking News.ie http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/aba4168066a10b8d/id/25844611/ by Brendan Cole Both sides are greatly weakened for the third Test but the Lions' losses look more damaging and they will be hard pushed to avoid the whitewash. http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/aba4168066a10b8d/id/25844123/ Fri, 03 Jul 2009 09:04:40 -0400 RTE http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/aba4168066a10b8d/id/25844123/ See Search Box lower down this column for searches of Finfacts news pages. Where there may be the odd special character missing from an older page, it's a problem that developed when Interactiv... http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/aba4168066a10b8d/id/25843616/ Fri, 03 Jul 2009 08:55:18 -0400 Finfacts http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/aba4168066a10b8d/id/25843616/ Jul 3 2009 A national airline has adopted a cheeky way to encourage passengers to watch its in-flight safety video: the cabin crew's uniforms are nothing but body paint. The Bare Essentials of Saf... http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/aba4168066a10b8d/id/25844623/ Fri, 03 Jul 2009 08:59:45 -0400 Loughborough Echo http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/aba4168066a10b8d/id/25844623/ Gardaí are searching for two armed raiders following a bank robbery in Co Tipperary this morning.The raiders, who were dressed as workmen, entered the AIB outlet in Clogheen at around 10.30am armed w... http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/aba4168066a10b8d/id/25844610/ Fri, 03 Jul 2009 08:52:01 -0400 Breaking News.ie http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/aba4168066a10b8d/id/25844610/ Jul 3 2009 Britain's hottest spell in years has been washed away in thunderous style as a raft of summer storms swept across the country. Temperatures around the country were dropping by up to 8C ... http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/aba4168066a10b8d/id/25844621/ Fri, 03 Jul 2009 08:59:46 -0400 Loughborough Echo http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/aba4168066a10b8d/id/25844621/ Several hundred Bank of Ireland shareholders are attending the bank's Annual General Meeting in Dublin. A number of shareholders going into the meeting expressed their unhappiness at the bank's stock... http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/aba4168066a10b8d/id/25844612/ Fri, 03 Jul 2009 09:04:33 -0400 RTE News http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/aba4168066a10b8d/id/25844612/ A MOTHER was toasting an incredible second big Lotto win last night, picking up €500,000 just eight years after she won a €250,000 prize.The http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/aba4168066a10b8d/id/25844624/ Fri, 03 Jul 2009 08:58:01 -0400 Independent.ie http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/aba4168066a10b8d/id/25844624/ Human rights campaigners today accused Justice Minister Dermot Ahern of abusing the Dáil and operating a police state by fast-tracking tough new anti-gangland laws.The minister has pushed ahead with ... http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/aba4168066a10b8d/id/25843733/ Fri, 03 Jul 2009 08:52:00 -0400 Breaking News.ie http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/aba4168066a10b8d/id/25843733/